Tag: Backend development
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Greykite: A flexible, intuitive, and fast forecasting library
Posted on May 29, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
In this blog post, we introduce the Greykite library, an open source Python library developed to support LinkedIn's forecasting needs. Its main forecasting algorithm, called Silverkite, is fast, accurate, and intuitive, making it suitable for interactive and automated forecasting at scale. Co-authors: Reza Hosseini, Albert Chen, Kaixu Yang, Sayan Patra, Rachit Arora, and Parvez Ahammad.
Tags backend-development cloud-and-infrastructure software-engineering data-and-analytics ai-and-machine-learning
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Extreme HTTP performance tuning: 1.2M API req/s on 4 vCPU EC2 instance
Posted on May 25, 2021, Level advanced Resource Length long
This post will walk you through the performance tuning steps that I took to serve 1.2 million JSON "API" requests per second from a 4 vCPU AWS EC2 instance. For the purposes of this recreated quest, we will ignore most of the dead ends and dark alleyways that I had to struggle through on my solo expedition. By Marc Richards.
Tags software-engineering cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd backend-development architecture-and-apis
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SSL with Spring WebFlux and Vault PKI
Posted on May 24, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length short
In this article, you will learn how to configure the Vault PKI engine and integrate it with Spring WebFlux. By Piotr Minkowski.
Tags security-and-privacy backend-development software-engineering
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Deep learning for NLP: Creating a chatbot with Python & Keras!
Posted on May 22, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Learn how Deep Learning can be used for NLP and create a simple Chatbot with Python and Keras. Who doesn't like a friendly-robotic personal assistant? By howtolearnmachinelearning.com.
Tags backend-development data-and-analytics ai-and-machine-learning business-and-emerging-tech
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Best practices for Node.js security
Posted on May 15, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Like any other programming language or framework, Node.js is susceptible to every type of web app exposure. Although the basis of Node.js is secure, third-party packages may need more security standards to safeguard your web app. The study says that 14% of the NPM (Node Package Manager) ecosystem is impacted and 54% of the NPM ecosystem is about to be impacted indirectly. By Kiran Malvi.
Tags security-and-privacy frontend-and-mobile backend-development
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Why you should not use webpack
Posted on May 9, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Webpack is one of the most popular bundlers around today. Tons of production apps and frameworks, such as Next.js, Create React App, and more, use it for bundling and building. Additionally, it has the largest library of plugins out of any bundler. However, times have changed since Webpack's inception, and now it is not the best tool for lots of cases. By AsyncBanana.
Tags backend-development frontend-and-mobile software-engineering devops-and-ci-cd
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Recording audio on Android with examples
Posted on May 5, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Knowing how to effectively record audio from a phone is valuable for mobile developers, but is especially essential for apps that process media. The wide range of hardware in Android devices can make it difficult to develop applications that need to capture and play back audio. By Megan Ren.
Tags frontend-and-mobile product-and-design backend-development
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Introducing PHP on Cloud Functions
Posted on May 4, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Google is bringing support for PHP, a popular general-purpose programming language, to Cloud Functions. With the Functions Framework for PHP, you can write idiomatic PHP functions to build business-critical applications and integration layers. By Brent Shaffer and Vinod Ramachandran @googlecloud.
Tags product-and-design cloud-and-infrastructure backend-development architecture-and-apis
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Experiments in concurrency 3: Event loops
Posted on May 3, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
An event loop is a loop that runs your code and does things based on some events. That's vague, I know, but it'll become clearer as we go. By Shalvah.
Tags product-and-design frontend-and-mobile backend-development
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WebAssembly to run blockchain using Go
Posted on April 26, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Blockchain is a technology with countless applications and a great potential that is not yet fully utilized. It is an ordered list of blocks that are chained together, hence dubbed the name blockchain. By Mahmoud Fathy.
Tags backend-development product-and-design business-and-emerging-tech software-engineering
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A pragmatic architecture
Posted on April 25, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
REST, CQRS and messaging are not just buzzwords to you? But you want to know how to put them all together? Then let's make a plan! By Michael Zangerle.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure product-and-design frontend-and-mobile backend-development devops-and-ci-cd
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Exploring Typescript: Interfaces, Types & Classes
Posted on April 23, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Typescript is a superset of Javascript, which means that all Javascript is syntactically valid Typescript. However, Typescript's power comes from its strict typing of objects. By Two Devs in a Pod.
Tags frontend-and-mobile product-and-design backend-development